Goosehill Private Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision is outstanding

The quality of education is exceptional and is rooted in staff's expert knowledge and extensive experience. Leaders and staff share extremely high aspirations for all children.

Activities are meticulously planned to meet children's learning needs precisely. Staff capture children's interests extremely well. For example, following an interest in snow, children ask what the inside of a snowflake looks like.

Staff help them to explore this, for instance using reference books, and this leads to exploring patterns and symmetry. Children are very happy at play and become engrossed, showing excellent levels of concentr...ation. For example, two-year-old children fill carved out butternut squash with lentils, exploring the sensation on their fingers and the sounds as they pour.

Children develop a love of learning and are highly motivated, independent and resilient learners. All children achieve extremely well. Staff have a deep understanding of children's emotional development and support children to manage their feelings.

Children form close bonds with staff who are very kind and caring. Children's behaviour is exemplary. They follow instructions and understand and describe the reasons for boundaries in the nursery.

Familiar staff and consistent routines help children to feel safe.

What does the early years setting do well and what does it need to do better?

Managers are inspirational. Their approach to early education is becoming renowned with other professionals.

They share their expertise about, for example, children's brain development and effective learning environments with other settings and visitors from other countries.Staff have researched and value the benefits of movement, exercise and outdoor experiences on children's physical and emotional well-being. They provide daily extensive opportunities to support this.

For example, children spend time in the forest and at the beach. Highly nutritional meals and snacks further promote children's good health.All spaces are filled with inspiring activities that enthral children.

Staff skilfully adapt their teaching to match children's individual needs. This helps to ensure that each child is challenged to build rapidly on their skills and knowledge.Babies thrive in a home-from-home environment.

Staff have an in depth knowledge of their home routines and preferences. Care plans are meticulously matched to the needs of the children and in line with requests from parents.Toddlers benefit from an array of opportunities to explore.

For example, they immerse their hands in fruit-filled paints, tracing patterns and making marks. Older children concentrate intently as they make patterns with jewels and stencils on an overhead projector.Pre-school children understand that text has meaning.

While making pizzas they are supported well by staff to read the recipe cards. Children check how many of each ingredient they need and recap each step of the recipe, learning that text goes from left to right and top to bottom. They develop excellent skills in literacy and mathematics.

Staff have immense regard for helping children to speak fluently and extend their vocabulary. Older children are highly articulate. They demonstrate this when they pretend to telephone one another and share messages.

This is supported extremely well through parent partnerships. Staff provide 'spark-a-thought' bags, which contain an interesting item and suggested questions to encourage communication skills at home.Partnerships with other professionals and parents are strong.

This is particularly evident for children who have special educational needs and/or disabilities and those who speak English as an additional language. Provision for these children is meticulously coordinated and contributes to achievements beyond expectations.Staff encourage children to find their own solutions to problems.

Children show remarkable levels of perseverance, self-esteem and immense pride when they succeed. For example, a boy exclaims, 'I'm brilliant' when he manages a tricky task. Children cooperate and help one another when they encounter difficulties.

For example, a child helps his friend to tilt a baking tray that is too wide for the oven so that it will fit inside.Children visit the beach and forest where staff encourage their curiosity, awe and wonder. They learn about different cultures and lifestyles in innovative ways.

For instance, during pretend play children wrap dolls in fabric and carry them on their backs while they 'go to work'.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.Staff have extensive knowledge of factors that can affect children's well-being.

They know children very well and are alert and vigilant to changes in their well-being or other signs that may indicate that they are at risk from harm. They know what to do if they are concerned about a child's welfare. Staff help children to take responsibility for their own safety.

For example, children design 'stop and think' signs to display in the nursery. They explain that these signs mean they must think about their safety. For example, they make sure there is an adult with them if they leave the room.